SCA: security update for com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.search (GHSA-ccrc-5vp5-vp5j)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 435356

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Search widget in Liferay Portal 7.4.3.93 through 7.4.3.111,
and Liferay DXP 2023.Q4.0, 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web
script or HTML via the _com_liferay_portal_search_web_portlet_SearchPortlet_userId parameter.
(CVE-2025-43804)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ccrc-5vp5-vp5j

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 435356

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 9/18/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 9.14

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-43804

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Threat Score: 1.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/16/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-43804

cwe: CWE-79